This page summarizes Doing Business 2015 data for Ethiopia. The first section presents the Ease of Doing Business rank (out of 189 economies) and the distance to frontier (DTF)** measure, overall and by topic. The second section summarizes the key indicators for each topic benchmarked against regional averages.

Starting a Business

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The challenges of launching a business are shown below. Included are: the number of steps entrepreneurs can expect to go through to launch, the time it takes on average, and the cost and minimum capital required as a percentage of gross national income (GNI) per capita.

Information on new business density and number of newly created firms with limited liability can be found at Entrepreneurship Database.

Indicator

Ethiopia

Sub-Saharan Africa

OECD

The total number of procedures required to register a firm. A procedure is defined as any interaction of the company founders with external parties (for example, government agencies, lawyers, auditors or notaries).

The total number of days required to register a firm. The measure captures the median duration that incorporation lawyers indicate is necessary to complete a procedure with minimum follow-up with government agencies and no extra payments.

The amount that the entrepreneur needs to deposit in a bank or with a notary before registration and up to 3 months following incorporation and is recorded as a percentage of the economy’s income per capita.

Authentication of the company documents and the lease agreement at the Documents Authentication and Registration Office (DARO)

2 days

ETB 390

3

Submit documents and obtain a letter from the Commercial Registry to open a bank account

1 day

no charge

4

Open a bank account

1 day

no charge

5

Register and obtain the Commercial registration certificate

1 day

ETB 80

6

Make a company seal

3 days on average

ETB 100

7

Register with Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority for income tax and VAT

2 days

no charge

8

Obtain a business license

1 day

ETB 80

9

Install a cash registration machine

3 days on average

ETB 5,000-10,000

**The distance to frontier score shows how far on average an economy is at a point in time from the best performance achieved by any economy on each Doing Business indicator since 2005 or the third year in which data for the indicator were collected. The measure is normalized to range between 0 and 100, with 100 representing the frontier. Read more...

***Last year's rankings are adjusted. They are based on 10 topics and reflect data corrections.